Well, this last week was a very eventful week. Monday was probably the worst day on my mission so far. It was raining first thing in the morning so everything was wet everywhere. We had some time before district meeting, so we were going to see a recent convert and have a lesson before getting to the church for our meeting. She has this weird sidewalk outside of her house that when it gets wet it gets super slippery, and so since it was raining it was pretty much a death trap. I parked the car (for one of the last times that day) and I got out of the car and was moving quickly so I didn't get super wet because I didn't want my suit to get ruined. As I was stepping with my right foot from the road over the tree-lawn and onto the sidewalk, my right foot slipped on the wet sidewalk and I did the "James Brown splits" according to the recent convert. So, I figured out I can do the splits, but it came in an embarrassing way and when my feet slipped apart, my left knee went smashing down into the sidewalk. I ended up just laying there for about ten seconds in a puddle because my knee hurt so bad. After laughing super hard, Elder Amparan came to help me up. That's what companions are for :) So then I was limping around for a bit of the day, but didn't think anything was wrong with it.
We were at BWW for lunch because it was one of the Sisters in the districts birthday and we had just left there when the rest of the day went way downhill. Ohio has this weird thing where they don't have any turning lanes, so when people have to turn left, they just stop all the traffic behind them and it is the most frustrating thing ever, especially when you are already late somewhere. Anyways, back to the story. We had been stopped at a red light behind a few other cars and we were the last car that was stopped at the light. The light turned green so we started to go and the first car that was stopped ended up wanting some lunch so they went to turn into Arby's that was just after the intersection but had to wait for on coming traffic to clear. All of us were stopped behind the car and we were still the last car there and as soon as we were stopped, I looked in the rear view mirror to make sure there wasn't anyone behind us. Bad idea. As soon as I looked up, I saw the lights of a truck right there and only had time to inhale before we were being thrown forward. Luckily we were both wearing our seat belts, but we were hit hard enough to push us into the car in front of us and we ended up rear ending them as well, but there wasn't much damage to them at all. Just a few scratches to them. Our whole back end was smashed in, our bike rack on the back of our car was sliced in half, the back windshield was shattered, and the front of our car was a little out of place. It's a good thing that we had the bike rack on because it took most of the force and really messed up the front of the truck, and the bike rack got sliced in half perfectly. When we got hit, the hitch for the bike rack got shot straight down into the road and left a gouge in the road the entire length that we got pushed, so now there is just a huge piece of road missing. No biggie, just leaving our mark in Alliance. You can see the truck that hit us in one of the pictures, so it wasn't just a normal truck, but a big box truck that the guy was using for work. Also, my knee that I smashed into the sidewalk earlier? It was finally starting to feel better and then when we got hit I smashed it again into the dashboard of our car and so it started to hurt again. Double whammy for my poor knee, and another car that was subjected to my wrath and is gone for good probably. :(
The rest of the day was spent at the emergency room getting x-rays on our backs and necks and my knee. These last couple of days since then have been a little bit painful with crappy necks and sore backs and headaches all day every day, and we have to bike now until another car can come down to us from the mission office which won't be until Saturday at the earliest and most likely next week. Oh, and it's supposed to rain every day this week. The one week we decide to get in a wreck so we bike is the week it rains all week. Great timing. The good news is that nothing is wrong from the wreck, just sore from the usual crap of getting in a wreck, and at the emergency room I got to ride in a wheel chair! They knew my knee was hurting so to go get the x-rays they decided to get me a wheel chair. The best part was that I walked into the ER and walked out of the ER, but they had to give me a wheelchair while I was there.
But, that's all okay because we got to see President Uchtdorf in the flesh last week! He is one of the funniest people ever and such an amazing man! It was definitely one of the best meetings I have been a part of and there was just a special spirit there with him. He wanted to take a picture with the entire mission so that's how we started, then we went into the chapel at the Kirtland Stake Center and listened to him and his wife. We were all supposed to be able to shake his hand and talk with him for like five seconds, but they didn't realize how many missionaries are in the mission so then it was cancelled at the last second. Kind of a bummer, but he was so great! He didn't use any airplane analogies, but talked about Independence Day and how, through the Atonement and repentance, every day can be an Independence day for us in life and especially on our missions. He told us to forget about yesterday except for what we want to improve on, and then make today a new day. Don't let the difficulties of yesterday affect today. It was so cool how he related it all back together, and all he had was his scriptures! No talk written down, just him and his scriptures. Such a good guy and a great meeting.
Cassidy told her parents about the baptism (obviously with the picture that was on Facebook) so now it is official and it is still good to go for Sunday. Her interview is today with the zone leaders so it will officially be official after all that happens.
We had a little bit of a slower week other than that last week. Jean dropped us because she talked to her neighbor that knows some deep doctrine and it freaked her out, but we saw it coming because of last week so we weren't too shocked when it happened. We taught a drunk man about the Word of Wisdom (Silas Dawson), we've almost finished all the lessons before Cassidy's baptism, just need to finish lesson 5 which will happen tomorrow, Brent and Aimee and co. were at church on Sunday again after missing last week and then we met with them after church and talked to them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Word of Wisdom and committed them to live it. And we had dinner at the same time. Did some tracting, now we've been doing some biking, and we saw Crystal again yesterday. She is most likely going to be coming to church this Sunday, and the baptism of Cassidy is what will be the big thing in getting her there. It'll be good though. Did some service helping our Ward Mission Leader put together a deck at their house, saw Matt again and he had read to Mormon in the Book of Mormon, so a ton of progress from him. Denia was out of town for a family reunion so we didn't get to see her last week, but this Saturday we are going to see her again and get her rolling on everything again.
Enjoy the pictures!
Love,
Elder Woodward
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